1968 Movies

Finding box office information for movies made before 1980 is not an easy task.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1968 it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 36,000 movies.  So we figured we would show all the 1968 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1968.  This page will looks at 140 1968 Top Box Office Movies.  The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.    This only represents about 25% of the movies made in 1968….but should cover the top box office movies.

Wow….these movies are now over 50 years old!

Our UMR Top 50 of 1968

1968 Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort 1968  Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
  • Sort 1968  Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1968  Movies by stars of the movie
  • Sort 1968  Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1968  Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each 1968  Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1968 Movies received.
  • Sort 1968 Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
 
1968’s Planet of the Apes

Top earners in 1968 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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54 thoughts on “1968 Movies”

  2. Hi Bruce;

    I do not see THE POWER on the 1968 list. It was released by MGM in February 68 and starred George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette.

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    1. Hey Nick. I sadly do not have any box office numbers for The Power….so I was unable to include the movie in the rankings. Sorry about that.

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  3. I wouldn’t argue with anyone that there were better movies released in 1968 than my favorite, but the moment Fanny Brice looked into that mirror, saying “Hello Gorgeous” to her reflection, the audience knew that Stage, TV and recording sensation Barbra Streisand had arrived in Hollywood to stay. Her performance was a tour de force, the actress had to mature from a stagestruck uckly duckling in her teens to a grown up woman and Stagestar in her own right, Along the way, the sometimes rather croaky script asked her to be funny, sad, melodramatic…but always the one ingredient that keeps the film together. Streisand delivered in spades, and sadly only occasionally showed some of the acting brilliance she displayed in her debut later in her career (after the financial failure of Up The Sandbox, it seemed she decided to play it safe, at least as an actress).
    The “better” movies certainly are 2001 and arguably Rosemary’s Baby, The Lion in Winter and Bullitt. Other favorites of a year that shows more non- seen’s than Have-seen’s are Oliver, Planet of the Apes, Ice Station Zebra, The Boston Strangler and Barbarella. Although I like those other Quatermass movies, Quatermass and the Pit is not among my favs. The Legend of Lylah Clare had it’s moments, The Anniversary is a strange film with an interesting over the top performance by Bette Davis, Doris called it a Day after With Six You Get Egg Roll, the better one of her two movies of the year and at least with decent box office returns. Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell was funny at least, though I like Lollobrigida’s other comedies better. Yours, Mine and Ours made a lot of money, it was a pleasant time killer…but Lucille Ball was a tad old to make the whole thing believable 🙂

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    1. Lupino , beautifully said about Barbra and funny girl. you had questioned my putting her as my number 3 favorite, so here are my thoughts. I never felt she played it safe. not as a young groom in yentl or a prostitute in the owl and the pussycat or in prince of tides ( she also directed to 7 Oscar nominations, a four year project) or the mirror has 2 faces or the way we were or hello dolly. her major shortcoming is she only blessed me with 19 movies. partly due to spending 5 years writing and directing and starring in yentl ( 5 Oscar nominations) and partly because she is the top female recording artist all time. I loved a star is born, nuts, funny lady, on a clear day you can see forever. help me, I even liked meet the fockers and whats up doc? . thanks to UMR, I learned she was nominated for 9 best actress golden globes in her 19 movies and 9 of her movies totaled 44 Oscar nominations. if she had committed to only acting, who knows how far she could have gone? most importantly for me she made me laugh.

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      1. Hi bob,

        I agree with you on the “overall greatness” of Barbra Streisand, but when you think about the power she had as the most bankable female star of the 70’s, films like For Pete’s Sake or The Main Event (which, btw, I like) seem a rather odd choice for someone who went through that decade claiming she was “an actress who sings, not a singer who acts” and repeatedly told interviewers that she wanted to do Juliet and Sarah Bernard and and and…Why, on earth, settle on For Pete’s Sake, then? She did take a big risk on Yentl, but not really as an actress- more as an artist…and the part of Yentl herself wasn’t outside Barbra’s comfort zone. She never played villains, she never accepted her age, playing in a romantic comedy at age 54…nothing wrong with that, but where is the stretch as an actress? Look at the different kind of roles people like Judy Dench or Helen Mirren are playing…Miss Streisand opted for the Fockers movie, and while she was very funny in it and certainly added a few millions to her bank account…where was the stretch as an actress???
        Only recently has her next pet project Gypsy fallen apart. Barbra in a musical, great prospect. But playing another character 20 years younger than her actual self? Like you, I enjoyed all of her films, but unlike you, I feel very saddened by the fact that she never explored that great talent that was imminent in the many facets she put into her original creation of Fanny Brice- and never was able to embrace her actual years and act the hell out of some shady or bitchy or worn out or whatever parts for older women!

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  4. Hi Bruce,
    Very good timing as 2001: A Space Odyssey is just celebrating its 50th year (it was released in April 1968) and is being shown in some cinemas in some cities. Definitely a movie to see on the big screen. I was hearing that it was not very successful at first, and I assume the $56.9M gross above includes re-releases. It would be interesting to know how much it grossed upon initial release.

    It seems 1968 was landmark year for both the science fiction genre, with 2001 and Planet of the Apes, and the horror genre, with Rosemary’s Baby and Night of the Living Dead. Meanwhile,Steve McQueen shot to the very top with Bullitt and The Thomas Crown Affair, and Charles Bronson became an international star with his iconic role as Harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West.

    I have seen 38 movies on the list, with Planet of the Apes and Once Upon a Time in the West being two of my favorite films of all time. To complete my top 10, I would include:

    The Odd Couple
    Bullit
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Boston Strangler
    Where Eagles Dare
    The Party
    Night of the Living Dead
    Charly

    with honorable mentions to No Way to Treat a Lady, The Swimmer and Rosemary’s Baby.

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    1. Ha, just saw Steve had already pointed out the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I should have figured he would be on top of that one 🙂

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      1. Yep…Mr. Lensman beat you to the punch….2001 A Space Odyssey is one of his all-time favorite movies.

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    2. Hey PhilHOF17……I find it disturbing that all of these movies are 50 years old….I mean that sort of sounds old….lol. As for A Space Odyssey in 1968? On Variety’s 1968 Top Grossers Page….January 8th 1969, Page 18…..it comes in at #11 for the year……just barely missing out the Top 10….as The Green Berets barely edged it out. That would translate to about want Get Out made last year….so it was a hit on it’s initial release….just not a blockbuster….but it played for years as more and more college students found….pretty much a version of Rocky Horror Picture Show.

      I agree with your 2nd paragraph 100%…it sounds like something I would have written…lol. 38 1968 movies is slightly behind my tally……which is not good enough to be standing on the medal platform…..Dan – gold….Steve and Flora – silver….runner ups you, me, Laurent and bob cox.

      No Way To Treat A Lady is a very entertaining movie……it comes from the mind of William Goldman would wrote my favorite film of 1969….Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I have not seen The Swimmer….but the story line sounds very interesting…..as Lancaster swims home, via the back yard pools in his neighborhood….at least I think that is the scenario of the movie.

      As always….your feedback is greatly appreciated.

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      1. RE: The Swimmer:
        You’re right about the scenerio of The Swimmer. Further, he is not always welcome at the pools and that is what creates the drama. It’s a facinating film.

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      2. Hi Bruce,
        Yes, looking at these pages does not make one feel any younger. I remember when some of these films first started playing on TV. 😉

        Thanks for the info on the initial box office receipt of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

        And as Flora says, you’re right about the plot of The Swimmer. It’s a little bit of a surrealistic psychological drama. At the time, it was probably Burt Lancaster’s worst box office performance since he started in the movies, but it grew into something of a cult film. Lancaster gives a very strong performance in it, and it’s amazing to see how athletic he still was at 54!

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  5. great memories. I have seen 33. i only saw one on the big screen as a 12 year old, planet of the apes, because I had my first summer job and it took lots of my time at $1.40 per hour minimum wage. with my newly acquired wealth I bought my fist stereo, an 8 track. then i spent my time listening to music and reading. how quaint. my personal top 250 all time favorites include: funny girl, a lion in winter, and where eagles dare. great comments Flora, Dan, and Steve, Bobby, Cogerson, Laurent. thanks UMR.

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    1. Hey Bob
      1. Tally count: Dan 76, Flora 45, Steve 45, Cogerson 43, bob cox 33 and Laurent 24.
      2. Very interesting about how you spent your earnings….at $1.40 a hour….you would have earned $56 dollars if you had worked an entire 40 hour work week. My first job paid the minimum of $3.35 a hour (mid 1980s)….which meant I would have earned $134 dollars for an entire 40 hour work week.
      3. The stats in #2 really make me feel old….lol.
      4. Rocking the 8 track love it……the funnest line in Armageddon is when the character asks “Can they bring back 8 tracks?” for his request to save the world.
      5. Right there with you about Where Eagles Dare….my dad used to love that movie….I love the screen team of Clint and Burton….classic stuff.
      Great feedback as always.

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      1. stay in the white horse? take care of a few tickets? who killed Kennedy? pay no taxes! here’s to Bruce and Bruce.

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